Josue De Paula wants to be a Dodger ‘for a very long time’
Atlanta – The Central Field Player of the Class A Great Lakes affiliated with the Dodgers is a former choice of draft in the first round. The other two field players were selected for the long -term match.
Who is the best aerobatic of the team?
“We are all good, brother,” said Left defender Josue de Paula. “We all have talent. We all excel somewhere.
“We together? It’s a dream team. I don’t feel like you are so often talented.”
De Paula flashed his considerable talent on Saturday, hitting a three-point circuit which decided on the 4-2 victory of the National League on the American League and won him the most useful player’s prize for the future Game.
The only other dodgers’ prospects to win this award: the interior player Chin-Lung Hu, in 2007.
“It’s really motivating for me,” said Paula. “Mentally, it was a great moment, to prove, especially to myself, which I am really.”
The Home Run de De De Paula has traveled 416 feet, triggering a series of fireworks in the sky and a bump in the throat of De Paula as it crossed marble.
“I was overwhelmed by emotion,” he said, “especially do it in front of my father.”
Her father lives in New York. Midwest League is far away.
Maybe the major leagues are not so far. De Paula is 20 years old, but he is in his fourth professional season. The Dodgers signed him from the Dominican Republic, but he was born in New York and he is a cousin of the former cousin of the former NBA All-Star, Stephon Marbury.
“Baseball called me,” said Paula. “I fell in love at a young age.”
Zyhir Hope, the right field player of the great lakes, also appeared in the future game. He chose De Paula and scored on Home Run, so he was waiting for the marble to congratulate Paula.
“We often do it,” said Paula, smiling.
Hope, also 20 years old, smiled when he was asked what he loved in Paula’s game.
“Everything,” he said. “He takes it easily. He is calm, relaxed and relaxed, but he works hard. He’s a great guy. “
Before the season, the baseball prospectus ranked Paula and Hope among the best hopes of baseball. Currently, MLB Pipeline ranks among the first 40.
De Paula offers power, speed and advanced discipline of the plates, although the scouts wonder if he can stay in the left field or may need to try the first base or the designated striker. Hope has gone from a good field perspective with uncertain striking skills in the Chicago Cubs system – the Dodgers put it in the trade of Michael Busch – to a hitter with speed.
It is the time of year, of course, when the contenders exchange prospects to meet the needs in major league. Andrew Friedman, president of the Dodgers baseball operations, rarely exchange its main perspectives and Paula ranks n ° 1 in the agricultural system of Dodgers. On the other hand, the Dodgers need tuning aid.
“I want to get there, I hope it is in God’s plans,” said Paula. “In the end, we never make decisions. We just have to focus on what we have to do on the field and whatever happens.
“But I really hope that I will become a Dodger and I stay there for a very long time.”
